Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Minister Atishi said on Tuesday that she has received an offer to join the Bharatiya Janata Party in order to “save” her “political career”, adding that she was threatened with arrest if she did not accept. The BJP, however, dismissed the claim, asking Ms. Atishi to apologise for her “false allegation” or to provide proof with details of the person who had approached her.
“I want to inform the people of the country that the BJP approached me through an individual who is personally very close to me, to join their party,” Ms. Atishi said. “I was told to either join the BJP, to save and extend my political career, and [that] if I will not join the BJP, then I would be arrested by the ED within a month.”
Referring to the chain of arrests of AAP leaders, she alleged that the BJP has decided to “crush and eliminate the AAP” by putting its leaders in jail. She claimed that she has received information regarding an Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on her personal residence, adding that other AAP leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj, Durgesh Pathak, and Raghav Chadha would also be arrested.
